Mario Scalzo

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Mario Scalzo
Date of birth November 11, 1984
place of birth Saint-Hubert , Quebec , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 87 kg
position defender
number # 79
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2001-2004 Tigres de Victoriaville
2004-2005 L'Océanic de Rimouski
2005-2007 Iowa stars
2007-2008 Norfolk Admirals
2008-2009 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2009-2011 Adler Mannheim
2011–2012 TPS Turku
2012-2014 EC Graz 99ers
2014-2015 KLH Chomutov
2016-2017 Épinal Hockey Club
2019-2020 Kassel Huskies
since 2020 Ice pirates Crimmitschau

Mario Scalzo (* 11. November 1984 in Saint-Hubert , Quebec ) is a German ice hockey player with Italo - Canadian origin, in June 2020 the Eispiraten Crimmitschau from the DEL2 under contract.

Career

Mario Scalzo

The 1.80 m tall defender played in his youth for the Tigres de Victoriaville and L'Océanic de Rimouski in the Canadian junior league Québec Major Junior Hockey League before he signed his first professional contract in 2005. For the Iowa Stars , Scalzo was two and a half years in the American Hockey League on the ice and then moved to league rivals Norfolk Admirals , where he played the 2007/08 season to an end.

In the summer of 2008, the Italian-Canadian signed a contract with the Austrian champions EC Red Bull Salzburg , with whom he again reached the final of the Austrian championship . After one season, Mario Scalzo left Salzburg for Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League .

In April 2011, Scalzo signed a contract for one year in the EHC Biel from the National League A . After falling out with head coach Kevin Schläpfer , his contract was terminated on October 3, 2011. He then received a short-term contract for a total of six games with SC Bern before signing a season contract with TPS Turku from the SM-liiga . In October 2012, the Graz 99ers signed a trial contract, which was later extended until the end of the season. On May 23, 2014 the Piráti Chomutov committed from the second Czech league Scalzo, with whom he won the championship of the first division at the end of the season.

In the following years he stopped playing professional games several times, moved to Speyer with his wife and worked in his in-laws' company. In August 2019, he initially received a trial contract with the Kassel Huskies from the DEL2 , but injured himself while preparing for the season. In December 2019 he received German citizenship and made his debut for the Kassel Huskies in the DEL2 a little later.

In June 2020 he was signed by the Crimmitschau ice pirates , where he meets his former trainer Mario Richer .

International

Scalzo took part in the 2011 World Cup as a member of the Canadian national team. He was on the ice in three games and made two assists.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2001/02 Tigres de Victoriaville LHJMQ 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
2002/03 Tigres de Victoriaville LHJMQ 72 10 34 44 134 4th 0 3 3 6th
2003/04 Tigres de Victoriaville LHJMQ 68 16 52 68 113 - - - - -
2004/05 Tigres de Victoriaville LHJMQ 39 11 19th 30th 73 - - - - -
2004/05 Oceanic de Rimouski LHJMQ 23 13 31 44 31 13 7th 14th 21st 10
2005/06 Iowa stars AHL 74 4th 29 33 42 7th 0 2 2 8th
2006/07 Iowa stars AHL 73 4th 21st 25th 89 9 0 3 3 10
2007/08 Iowa stars AHL 15th 1 8th 9 10 - - - - -
2007/08 Norfolk Admirals AHL 48 4th 16 20th 27 - - - - -
2008/09 EC Red Bull Salzburg EBEL 47 10 30th 40 116 15th 4th 8th 12 16
2009/10 Adler Mannheim DEL 45 11 17th 28 39 - - - - -
2010/11 Adler Mannheim DEL 51 13 19th 32 52 6th 0 2 2 2
2011/12 EHC Biel NLA 5 1 0 1 25th - - - - -
2011/12 SC Bern NLA 6th 2 2 4th 0 - - - - -
2011/12 TPS Turku SM-liiga 36 4th 10 14th 50 2 0 0 0 2
2012/13 EC Graz 99ers EBEL 37 4th 16 20th 52 5 0 1 1 4th
2013/14 EC Graz 99ers EBEL 32 1 10 11 16 - - - - -
2014/15 KLH Chomutov 1st League 18th 2 0 2 8th 4th 0 0 0 4th
inactive
2016/17 Épinal Hockey Club Ligue Magnus 26th 0 9 9 32 4th 1 2 3 12
inactive
2019/20 Kassel Huskies DEL2 28 3 15th 18th 24 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 203 50 137 187 351 18th 7th 17th 24 16
AHL total 210 13 74 87 168 16 0 5 5 18th
DEL total 96 24 36 60 91 6th 0 2 2 2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EBEL: Nate DiCasmirro, Mario Scalzo and Tommaso Goi - Who is moving to Bozen? (No longer available online.) In: hockey-news.info. July 29, 2013, archived from the original on March 30, 2017 ; accessed on March 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Biel's Scalzo fired. In: 20min.ch. October 3, 2011, accessed March 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ EBEL: Mario Scalzo is back in Graz! (No longer available online.) In: hockey-news.info. October 13, 2013, archived from the original on March 30, 2017 ; accessed on March 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hockey-news.info
  4. ↑ Mario Scalzo makes his home debut with a German passport at Huskies - Kassel Huskies. In: hna.de. December 8, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ After saying goodbye to Kassel: Ice pirates Crimmitschau present veteran Mario Scalzo for the defensive. In: eishockeynews.de. June 6, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
Squad of the Eispiraten Crimmitschau in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Scalzo, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Hubert , Quebec, Canada